Feed Warden

Posts stream across your editor's desk, each carrying engagement potential and a set of red or green flags. Publish solid reporting to grow reach, kill junk to protect trust, and spend your limited fact-checks on the close calls. Let trust collapse and the shift ends.

• Publish a post to gain reach, but publishing junk craters trust
• Kill a post you judge to be fabricated or misleading
• Fact-check to reveal a post's truthfulness, but checks are limited
• Balance reach against trust across the whole shift

• Daily: a fixed shift shared by everyone each day
• Practice: randomized shifts at Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty

• Desktop: click Publish, Fact-check or Kill
• Phone & tablet: tap the Publish, Fact-check or Kill buttons (mouse or touch only, no keyboard needed)

• Save your scarce fact-checks for ambiguous posts, obvious red flags can be killed without spending one
• A calm, well-formatted post can still be fabricated, so don't publish purely on appearances

Feed Warden is about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed.

• Skills: media literacy, news judgment, source credibility
• Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
• For parents & teachers: the judgment behind trustworthy news.

Publishing solid reporting to grow reach while killing junk to protect trust is the editor's trade-off, with engagement and credibility as opposing meters.

Making them genuinely opposed is the original design.

That opposition is the mechanism behind most misinformation online. Engagement rewards what is surprising, and what is surprising is disproportionately what is not true — so an incentive to publish is an incentive against checking.

Feed Warden is an original free browser game about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed, weighing the pull of engagement against the cost of spreading misinformation.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.